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Britain under pressure to veto Bermuda’s ban on homosexual ‘marriage’

Updated: December 20, 2017 at 12:12 pm EST  See Comments

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LONDON, U.K., December 20, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Britain’s Conservative government is reportedly under pressure to veto Bermuda’s law nixing homosexual “marriage” just six months after the island’s Supreme Court declared it legal.

Both Bermuda’s legislative assembly and Senate have approved the Domestic Partnership Act, which replaces “marriage” between two persons of the same sex with “domestic partnership.”

In doing so, Bermuda has become the first country to reverse the legalization of homosexual “marriage.”

But the governor of the British territory, Bermuda’s de facto head of state and the representative of the British monarchy, must sign off on the bill before it becomes law.

And the LGBTQ lobby and allies are pushing governor John Rankin to withhold his consent on this legislation.

Winston Godwin, the homosexual Bermudian who, with Greg DeRoche, argued successfully in court that the island’s former ban of homosexual “marriage” violated the U.K. Human Rights Code, released a statement to that effect.

“In such a position we should always do what is right, not necessarily what’s easy,” Godwin said.

“This bill effectively states that you are a second-class citizen because of who you love, and creates increased division within an already very divided

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